page 134 of mini chapter "Where Can I Fail?"
Buddhist masters like to say that if you're trying to reach enlightenment, you must develop, in this order, "right view, right intention, and right action." If you're not seeing the world properly, you have no hope of this sort of breakthrough. The question I want to explore now is" what is the right view when it comes to life in a revolutionary age? When the defining trait of life in those sandpile developments that, by definition, are new in our experience, how should we look at the world? Do we have anything to learn from people who are particularly successful in places where fast change and surprise are daily facts of life? These are vitally important questions if you;re trying to train yourself to make sense of a world order that looks increasingly out of control...
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"Many of our problems today aren't the result of too little information. Instead, they come from the challenge of sorting through a huge (and growing) amount of data, all constantly changing, and much of it irrelevant or misleading....
C 2009 Joshua Cooper Ramo, the author. Little Brown and Company is the publisher
